South Korea's poisonous gender politics a test for next president

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : In 2018, women took to the streets in record numbers to call for government action against an epidemic of molka - the use of spy cams to secretly film women, often in public toilets - and helped bring down several public figures, including a candidate for the presidency, for sexual misconduct.
42% : Yoon, 61, is said to be heavily influenced by his party chairman, Lee Jun-seok, a 36-year-old Harvard graduate and "men's rights" advocate who has criticised hiring targets for women and other female-friendly policies as "reverse discrimination", and described feminist politics as "blowfish poison".
34% : A year later, they helped overturn a decades-old ban on abortion, and shone a light into the darkest corners of an entrenched culture of male chauvinism, unequal pay and the expectation that their careers will end when they have children.

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